This girl is acting distressed because that makes people donate more. The disturbed feeling you’re getting is exactly the intended feeling. It makes the people donating get the impression that they’re prolonging a torture and not giving their money away.
Also, The background is a loop. I can’t believe I’m the only one here to point that out.
Gonna armchair psychologist this and say something about how the discomfort is evidence of the donator's actions, and so affirms the donator's power and agency in and over the world: Their act did something, caused something, and that gives it (and their existence) Meaning.
I'm also going to assume that a lot of people won't donate to the 'Happy Smile' machine because 'of course she pretends to be happy because I gave her money; that's insincere.'
It’s the same reason why torture porn exists where women get gangbanged, stretched, skullfucked, degraded, made to drink piss and do other godawful stuff. People get off on degradation of pretty women.
Time and time again, experiment after experiment has proven that most humans will gladly torture other people when they believe their actions won't be judged negatively, and someone else will join in...
The only modern example i can think of is that art thing where the lady let people do what they want, it ended up with a pretty big portion of the audience protecting her, so not sure if you are right, some people will, but not most humans.
I've met enough women in the kink community to know that a lot of them just like to be treated like that in a controlled environment too. Not that all the porn isn't some women desperate for money, but some certainly do it for the love of the game.
So is being gangbanged on the same level as stretched and degraded?
People have sex with multiple other people, you wouldn't want to have sex with 5 women if you were a man? And some people are size queens and want to try bigger sex toys.
I think you're either thinking of a very specific video or series of videos youve seen or perhaps you're projecitng your own morals.
I think in context, it was simply the wrong choice of word and should have been "gang-raped".
And no, they're likely not thinking of a very specific video or series - degradation porn is a genre you'll find on most porn sites as a category, and big enough that you'll see it whether or not you're interested.
Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. Use it, and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is only a dollar away.
You should look up the artist her made herself the canvas. Opened an exhibit with her as the artwork. Had dozens of items ranging from brushes to a loaded gun on a table & a sign that said to do whatever they wanted. It got dark pretty quickly
Yeah 体力直播(exercise stream) is a thing in china TikTok and recently it spreads to global TikTok too. It's basically someone pretending to eat on stream and there's a "menu" for donation on the side that if you donate, they had to do something, which encourage you to interrupt their meal. It ranges from greeting to asking them to do tough exercises depending on the value of the gift. I watch this one guy's stream and he basically pretending to be hurt or tired than he is just to get more donations. If you "beat" him, (basically donate so much that he surrender) your name will be printed and put on the wall behind him.
It is kinda dystopian. But thats how they get you hooked. The more they act like your donation has affected them, the more people are willing to donate and stick around to watch. The one op showed is just a bigger version of it where it involves dancing and selecting different girls like a game.
Of course I couldn't say she's 100% acting (since it looks like it's a big company running the show) but her acting distressed is basically required for this anyway.
If you can read mandarin and scroll TikTok (not douyin) long enough you see this kinda stream always. Theres one I saw where they setup the live like an office meeting, with the boss talking, and you can donate for the girls to dance mid meeting or kick the boss lol.
There are facebook livestreams like this too. People send stickers that will make the livestreamer do or say certain things on camera. Sometimes it’s fucked up or humiliating things. It’s like a sad, digital human zoo.
This isn't really consumption, it's more like paying for percieved power and the feeling of hurting others. We're gonna have a whole generation worth of psychopaths who never learned to mask/co-exist.
I mean it's definitely presented as an evil chinese dance torture facility to make profit, even if it's only pretending to be that, it's still extremely evil. Why defend it lol
Some people go to work at an Amazon warehouse, some people dance on a live stream for donations. Both are trading their body for money. In the first case, the employers don't give two fucks about the workers. In the second case, the employers (donators) actively want to see them suffer.
I'm not sure which is worse; complete disdain and lack of concern for the wellbeing of the employees or taking joy at the suffering of a single employee.
Yep this is a classic trope all over Chinese tiktok. If there is something disturbing happening it's beyond what we're seeing in the screen. The specific thing people are concerned about is for sure an act.
yeah i thought that too but then i started thinking it was like... normalizing or somehow approving that behavior and thus in turn making it more prevalent and intense which would be net worse? and around and around on loops I went
It’s actually probably the opposite, tbh. These lives will have you donate a specific gift to have one of the girls dance, so they play pre-recorded footage like this on a loop to entice people to donate out of pity so someone else has to dance.
Except that never happens because again - it’s a recording, and not actually live.
I watched one of these for hours once, almost the exact scenery. There was one girl who had been dancing for a while and seemed pretty distressed, her colleagues were trying to help her by cleaning up her forehead of sweat, and fixing her hair on her short breaks. After around 40 minutes I noticed it was a video that was being played in a loop. I stayed on for another 40 minutes to prove it, and indeed the same things started happening. Definitely clickbait, but I don’t think it makes it less sad. They also put lots of filters on them and they look so tired when the filter glitches and shows their real faces. This is pretty dystopian bs.
I see that a ton on live youtube streams that show up in the shorts scroll. It'll be some person trying to stop a task such as clicking a mouse or spinning a wheel or something but it's always a 15-30 minute loop and tons of people (I'm assuming little kids) donating to prolong the situation and a bunch of people yelling in chat about how it's fake. It's real brainrot shit.
You don’t know how many are donating. They all use self-donation too, like how a scam game on the street will have confederates playing. Self-donation launders money too
its possible there is something sinister going on here but your answer seemed the most likely. In theory this is a rule she set her self to promote donations and its working.
When you get into watching Chinese livestreams it’s a very bizarre and saturated market. I could definitely see this being a niche she found. When I lived in China I started watching some livestreams of what I thought were animal rescues. If you start reading up about the animal livestreams it gets really dark. China is dystopian as fuck.
I won’t write out all of it, but I’ll say that one issue was essentially animal hoarding and filming cutesy videos and asking for tips to feed/take care of them and then just stuffing them into packed cages. Many die due to neglect and they just get more and the cycle repeats. The stuffs that’s worse than that you can google. There’s definitely a market for torture.
Unfortunately, that's true the world round. There're a lot of people and even if only 0.001% of the population is truly 'evil' if such an objective thing exists, that's still over 8 million 'evil' people. It doesn't really say much about the average person, just how many people there are in the world.
Then there's cultural values or relative morality to consider on top of that. The internet just makes it easier to surface these things, and enables finding niche markets.
They performed forced abortions and forced sterilizations on millions of women under the one child policy until 2015. It’s a very cruel and ruthless government
This exact type of stream is actually fairly common on Douyin these days. I believe they're an offshoot of the walking streams where some dude (who, apparently, used to be a bit famous) and like 50 other people walk a few steps forwards and then backwards, for like 12 hours straight.
you can get on tiktok right now and see 1000 diff versions of this in a couple hours. A minecraft one building a cube but each donation blows it up in varying degrees, putting rubber bands on milk jugs, ive seen some causing actual harm to themselves for donations. They all wear this fake tortured face and beg people not to donate. Its fake.
This is mild compared to what some of these freaks will pay to watch. There's a lot of fucked up people out there who will happily pay to watch torture porn, and I mean the torture part literally.
Dance marathons were a big thing in the US during the great depression. Dancers would dance for hours or entire days similarly to this for prizes, a place for their family to stay while they were dancing, hot meals, etc.
I mean people literally go to clubs and dance for 4-6 hours every weekend for fun. Marathoners run 4-6 hours for fun. Of course dancing that long is tiring but acting like she's being tortured and this is superhuman is a bit much.
I don’t think the background is on a loop, the whole video is because it plays the same footage three times - just look at the donos. Although I do agree the entire thing is played this way entirely to elicit an emotional reaction and get more donations. It’s pretty common and anyone who’s spent more than 15 minutes on TikTok live has probably come across this exact type of scam already.
Apparently it's a common trope, as well - they do these group dance live streams, and there's often a designated 'discheveled' one. The others do just as much dancing.
I've done harder labor for longer. I mean this would suck. But not to the point where you are going to die like the girl makes it look. Still fucked up though.
It's like an update of what's his name. Nicado Avocado or whatever. Degradation kink. Everyone is participating and playing their part in it. Still weird and gross, and really wish it wasn't you know, in public like this, but that's part of the appeal, I guess.
People from the TikTok generation lack critical thinking skills, media literacy, and just common sense. They will believe everything they see and read online and will not bother doing any type of research or investigation into something. Just take what the see/read at face value, form their opinion of it, then move on. The only time they don’t believe something is if it’s just something they don’t want to believe because it goes against how they “feel” about a certain thing.
Take that brain rotted mentality and combine it with the advancements of AI and you’re gong to have a very, very stupid generation.
Like yeah, she can turn it off at any time lol. Sometimes I wonder how people come up with things like this, but it doesn’t affect me, so it’s just funny that it works.
Yeah like this is totally voluntary… and how much money is she making?
This is all an act. The disturbing part of this is the people who give her money and the people who somehow are stupid enough to not understand she’s not in distress or being forced to do this 😂
Yeah, she’s getting rich while doing and people are getting sad for her for no reason. I mean, she can stop at anytime, she keeps doing it because she wants more money.
It still disturbs me. Playing into people sadistic and weirdly fetishistic desire to force a woman to do something she doesn't want to do still means those people's desires are real
I mean yeah the first time it's probably a girl with entrepreneurial spirit but the next time it's going to be some wageslave in a contract making money for someone else... Then it gets dark real quick
Yeah, it’s still definitely incredibly disturbing & I’m sure these girls are likely being forced/held against their will & it isn’t like it’s easy to dance for 4-6 continuous hours, but this looks more like she’s been forced for 14-16 hours. I’m a random unathletic skinny fat American & I’ve had waitressing shifts where I was running around on my feet for 6 consecutive hours while carrying trays & didnt even have the chance to stop for a bathroom break lol and sure it was exhausting but I definitely wasn’t looking like I had just been forced to walk 40 miles at gunpoint. My older sister was actually deep into competitive dance from childhood through college, and she would have rehearsals before big events that lasted 12+ hours easily with minimal breaks or food. It was of course awful and unhealthy and probably illegal, but my point is that jumping around for 4-6 hours, especially if you’re a young thin woman like the ones in this video, you aren’t going to be THAT incredibly distressed lol. It’s really sick though that she has to play it up, since the whole thing is sadistic and people somehow apparently get off on this.
Why would anyone want to prolong someone's torture?
And also, I understand it's a trope, but at the same time, it is too easy for people to dismiss women's suffering as fake (e.g. unfortunate statistics about women's medical visits).
Yeah i see through it. The girl ain't distressed at all. She only acts like that because it keeps people watching longer than being excited to receive a donation.
This is correct. I danced non-stop for 6 hours at a club and then walked home at 6am this past Friday. I even did it in China, so it isn't something in the air that makes dancing extra hard here.
The hard part to think about is if people genuinely think this is torturous, and they are donating to prolong the torture (like you said), then that is fairly sick and says something about us. eek.
Yeah, like all the ppl "crying" doing some "challenge" and continuously saying "if someone donates I'll be done! Just one donation and I'm done!". And then "but wait, I have to...."
It's just edging the climax to a situation to keep idiots engaged to see an ending.
Essentially the "How do you confuse an idiot, read back" with the same on the other side
The backgrounds not a loop. Watch the two girls on the right, none of their movements repeat. You got confused because the video looped without you realising.
It's like those 48 hour dance-a-thon that schools run for their
children's hospitals.
Except every aspect is corrupted by horrible, selfish douchebags for attention instead of charity and self-aggrandizement instead of saving sick children.
Yup.. too many peope from other countries are livestreaming with the “tired” and “sad” face filter begging you not to pay for them to keep playing or doing whatever monotonous thing they are doing and its so abysmally boring. Idk how people willingly drop money on it but somehow its working.
I’m sure you’re right overall, but if the background is a loop it’s not visible in this clip. The girl on the far right moves out of frame in the beginning and it only happens once
Was gonna say, I used to be heavily into underground dance events and I’d easily dance for 6 hours. Once even for 12 for the majority of the time although that was with stimulants. 4-6 hours of flopping your arms around without moving your legs much really isn’t that tiring for someone in shape.
This is what's more fucked up to me. The dystopia isn't that someone needs to do this to make money, but rather the followers willing to give her money want to exist in a fantasy dystopia where that's why they are giving her money.
Well.. as fucked up as it is to learn people enjoy seeing her suffer, for once i'm glad that they're only faking her distress. I hope she'd getting paid well for this.
none of this clip is looping. not even the screen in the back has a full loop. this is likely part of the chinese influencer industry, where the training/tryouts are competitive and notoriously grueling. its unlikely that someone is actually dancing for 4-6 hours straight, but the discomfort is very likely genuine
its looped here but theres another video that showed the red lady (i think?) stepping up to help the girl. idt its looped but its possible theyre just pretending to suffer lol
Exactly there's another Channel that's kind of like this where a guy acts like he's going to hurt himself and he'll say three two one and then he'll start the count all over again and he just keeps doing that over and over
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u/sirideletereddit 11h ago
This girl is acting distressed because that makes people donate more. The disturbed feeling you’re getting is exactly the intended feeling. It makes the people donating get the impression that they’re prolonging a torture and not giving their money away.
Also, The background is a loop. I can’t believe I’m the only one here to point that out.